The Cecil Whig., 1887-12-10
A ROYAL TOOTH FULLER.
AN AMERICAN DENTIST IN PARIS
The Wonderful Success ot DIR. Thomas w.
ENans, of PhuadeIphia-AS short Time IN
Maryiaud-His Work on the Emperor s
Iceth-His For. une.

From the Mr. YORK Morning .JoundI.
PHILADELPHIA, November 90
Phil delphians returning tr, m abroad
are full of stories about the Evanses,
uncle and nephew, who i'll years past,
were citizens of this city, and who
are now among the wealthiest of
Parisians. They are both dentists,
and both have fairly coined money at
their profession. The elder of the
two, DIR. Thomas Wiltberser Evans,
is, perhaps, the better known, hav-
ing long been tami lar figure in the
best society of the French capital,
hobnobbing with crowned heads, fill
ing royal teeth, and giving his views
to statesmen and jurists on the policy
OF the nation, and the best means of
improving the French code.
DR.. Thomas w. Evais was born
in this city on December %, 1923,
His father was in moderate circum-
stances only, and had no idea, prob
ably, that his little heir would in time
to come be the companion of kings
and princes and the familiar friend
of scholars, savans, and diplomats.
Thomas was taken from school at
the age of fourteen and put to work
with a silversmith and maker of den
tal appliances, where he remained
four years. Subsequent to this he
was for two years with DR.. Join ID.
White, who is still practicing den
tistry in this city
Young Evans removed to Mary
land and established himself as a
dentist e remained there only a
short time, however, returning to his
native state and settling in Lancas
ter, where he built up an extensive
practice. His early familiarity with
metals stood him in good stead in
his profession, and among his claims
is the very doubtful one that it was
he who first turned the attention of
the dental world to the possibility of
preserving partially decayed teeth
by filling the cavaties with gold.
The little doctor-for he is de-
scribed IS a fat, pudgy, short-legged
and corpulent little fellow with light
hair and hercely pointed mustaches
having done all he could in Amer
ica to gain fame without much sue
cess, emigrated TO Europe, and by
some lucky chance fell under the no.
tice of Napoleon H., who was then
E.mporer of France. Napoleon, it
appears, had long been troubled with
toothaChe, and the American dentist
came to him like a boon from
Heaven. 1t may be said, to his
credit, that he made an excellent job
of His Imperial Myesty's teeth, and
His Imperial Majesty was grateful.
The Empress Eugene also had the
toothache after eating French bon
bons, and DR.. Evans volunteered to
restore her molars and incisors to
their pristine painlessness.
The Prince Imperial's teeth, too,
needed tink cring, and DR.. Evans did
his work well. The bill which he sent
in was long one, and the royal
Golfers, after it was paid, had cavities
in them many thousand times larger
than the cavities in the grinders
which he had SO skillfully plugs ed.
DR.. Evans proves asavanqnlsher
of the dreaded toothaChe was waited
from one end Of Europe to the other,
and he Wa. both surprised and de
liz nted to find that the pressure OF
Of crowns upon kingly heads had
apparently a most injurious effect
upon the teeth of the wearers. Com
missions came from here, there and
everywhere, and for a time the for
tunate American would nol deign to
put his fingers into the mouth OF
anything less than an archduke or
duchess.
Meanwhile his fortune was assum-
ing vast proportions. In some coun
tries a cabinet council had to be called
TO l,vy tax upon all the loyal sub
jec,s to pay the Court dentists bill !;
and, as all the loyal subjects Loyalty
responded, the little doctors bank
account grew larger and larger. His
office in Paris was palace, and his
residence on the way to the Bois de
Boulogne, and just beyond the
Champs Elysee, was, and still is,
marvel of elegance and luxury.
Among his achievements, aside
from his success as pullcr and plug
ger of royal teeth, were the establish
ment of a red cross society and the
organization of an ambulance corps,
which he sent out under his auspices
with the French army iii 1870. 1t was
in this year, too. that he figured as
the rescuer of his patron, the beauti-
titul Empress Eugenie.
Upon the downfall of the Empire,
in September Of that year, when the
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